By dumping this sector, they can now effectively use their R&D to develop something new.
This speaks of a misunderstanding of how R&D shops are organized, especially within IBM. The research arm and the developement arm are seperate; one develops cool new whiz bang tech, the other takes that tech and turns it into products. It is this second that has been split out. To imply that the presence of the seperate group developing products somehow limits the group doing research is kind of silly, it's the profits from the sales of the products developed by these folks that pay for the research into the next big thing.
This does present some thorny problems for the portions of IBM that depended upon this group that is leaving, though I suspect it was the ironing out of those problems that took so long to form this agreement. Where will the Shark product be without a ready supply of drives? Or most of the eServers for that matter?
if you associates aren't smart enough to distinguish between a scam and a legitimate e-mail, than you need to let thme get burnt a few times.
This is family we're talking about, not "associates"... you let family get burnt and you're getting fruitcake for christmass... for life.
Either that or get them off the Internet.
Ah, but then you couldn't get the pictures of the cousin's sister's kids emailed every time they get an award at school. Or the forward of the forward of the quoted forward of the latest monster joke to wander the 'net.
ISP phone droid #729: (picks up phone) Hello, this is $ISP, how may we make your ride on the information super highway smoother?
caller: I'd like to purchase a list of your users that visit sights like mine for marketing purposes.
phone droid: let me transfer you to marketing.
(cut to plush office, with a sleazball in a suit... plaque on wall reads "salesman of the year 1999")
marketing guy: Why yes Mr. Smith, we can do that. Simply provide us a list of domain names, and we can start send you a list of all $ISP customers that visited that site in the past month... oh, you want (with emphasis) deep data retreval?... (eyes spin and green dollar signs come up) Yes we can go back that far. (cha-ching sound)
(cut to small office, large crucifix hanging on wall behind man on phone)
man: Yes, that's the end of my list of domains. Uh-huh... yeah... ok I'll be looking forward to it in my inbox, and the check is on it's way.... You too, thanks. (hangs up phone, turns to hand a slip of paper to someone off camera, revealing a cleric's collar) Sister Doris, would you issue a check to these folks from the Church's "alternate evangelism" fund please, and what is the next ISP in the yellow pages?
(cut to another view of the same man in the same office, latter that week, working at a computer, removes floppy from diskette drive and turns to hand it to a woman at a smaller desk in the corner)
man: Sister Martha, would you cross reference this list of email addresses against the church's roster, anyone that appears on both lists, please send them a tithe reminder, jot a note suggesting they meet with me after services on the back. Give the ones that don't match to brother Bruce as potential new members of the One True Way World Church, for his email campaign to save the lost souls.
While I agree 100% with your placing the blame for bad GUIs at the feet of the programmers responsible for them, you sidestep the biggest problem with Swing: it pushes the bit level rendering WAY too far down in the call stack. Importantly for any form of Unix it pushes the widget to pixel translation *across* the X client/server gap! Yes, that's right, xscope any swing app and you get to watch the app push entire panel bitmaps across the wire, every refresh. In the windows world this isn't too much of a problem, because you almost always have direct hardware access to the video memory to draw into, but with X it's DEATH to performance.:(
Happily I've heard rumours that IBM has put a LOT of effort into fixing this for the next version of Java.
This bit of silliness was in the guise of providing a "common user interface" across all platforms, so that the XYZ ap running on Linux and on AIX and on Windows all looked and feeled exactly the same way. The stupidity here of course is that it now no longer resembles any other app on the box, and instead of providing the user with a tool that blends into everything they are used to on the machine you've provided them a tool that they don't understand.
In this regard AWT got it RIGHT, abstract the native platform's windowing toolkits. That way your (the programmers') choice to use java doesn't have any impact on the end user's experience... they don't have to know that your application is written in java, they just know they are running "OurShinnyNewApp" and it looks and feals just exactly like "OurRustyOldApp".
Have you even LOOKED at d.net in the last two years or so? I'd have to guess not, or else you missed OGR, which can be used for exactly the kind of things you're asking for!
Not in the state of Utah. Out here bars are 'Private Clubs for Members'. They have to maintain a membership roster, and keep records of who visits the club. You have to provide an ID to get in, not to prove you're of age, but for record-keeping.
That's what you get when you let a church run your state.
And that would leave us with how many commercial mail servers? None.:)
Not at all... the big companies like MS and Lotus would bring in their big lawyers and prove that it was a user config error, thereby clearing themselves and (in this case) ORBZ and laying the blame where it belonged, at the admin. They would then go back to their development labs and say "prevent the user from shooting themselves in the foot please." and a fix would be quietly issued a few months latter.
The list of contries is easy to get sure, but as you said: the reverse lookups (1) will kill your server and (2) will open you up to more DOS attacks . Just imagine a dns server that doesn't properly close connections, forcing them to time out, now imagine two or three of them configured into a delegation round robin... a few incoming requests and your machine grinds itself into dust trying to resolve the reverse IP... get enough of those and you'll tie up enough socket resources to choke the machine. Also a reverse DNS entry isn't a requirement, many networks don't provide them. Working from domain names just doesn't seem technically feasible... pulling netblocks from iana maybe more doable, but still isn't even close to 100% accurate.
Simply posting cryptographic software on a server that may be accessible from an embargoed country does not constitute ``knowledge'' that the software has been exported there. Therefore, criminal liability would not apply to the act of posting. We recommend that you perform IP checking and deny downloads to known embargoed countries. This due diligence also would provide a defense to a claim of civil liability. If you find out that your software has been downloaded to a prohibited destination, then I recommend that you block future downloads to that specific site unless and until you obtain a license from BXA.
This is the second time I've seen this "recomendation" come out of a legal organization, in almost exactly the same wording no less. I've got to believe therefore that they are pulling it from some other source, such as an official regulation or other document.
Does anyone have such a list though? Can anyone provide a copy of it? Is it even technically possible to generate? In real time, or even close? I mean sure, it's technically trivial to implement this blocking, just a few iptables/ipchains commands, or some entries in the firewall's firmware... but I think getting that list to begin with is nearly impossible. How do you know where the other end of the phone line that is dialed into some modem bank on the other side of the net is?
In the last instance that I saw this (an external server at work) corporate legal was threatening to pull the plug if the admins didn't provide proof they were doing this. After much head scratching and searching the net my sugested response was that they would be happy to implement this just as soon as the legal department provided them with such a list.
I'm told they never heard back from legal on that topic.
I'm not sure if it is sad or ironic that the site that was reluctant to put up merch is the one that has the best stuff. I love the "don't make me use this" shirt, and can't wait for my "capture the b34r" shirt to arive. Compared to most of the crap other comics have MT is in a league of their own. I mean I love GPF, Flem, UF and Sinfest, they're great comics, but have you looked at their merch lately? Like others I'd gladly donate a chunk of cash to MT in repayment for the year and a half of laughs I've enjoyed.
Not that I'm familiar with this AVSID thing you describe, but it sounds like premium Keenspot... except that half the stuff on keen sucks, so it's more like $45 for a dozen sites, for a year.
yeah. I was too moved by the content of his rant to think about the effect of/.'ing him at almost 4 in the morning.:( Besides, it's been years since a story of mine was actually accepted.;)
Exactly! It always amazes me how many people don't take this into account! The $6K you saved on parts will be lost the first time you have a power supply failure and crash the whole machine, or have a drive go bad in the raid and have to take the whole box down, pull it apart and swap one drive rather than just walk up, pop a clip, slide out the drive, slide in a replacement and snap it back, then login as root and issue a command to put it back into the raid. Compare no down time versus at least a half hour (if you rush the job, thereby risking doing more damage). The savings just aren't worth it for any business, let's face it that's why IBM exists and makes the kind of money it does.
actually the screen savers already did it, sorta. It was when they reviewed the StarWars skin for warcraft (or ages or whatever it was...) that was passed off as a new game a while ago... the best quote of the review went along the lines of "but some parts of the star wars universe don't translate well... when was the last time you saw a jedi knight hacking away at a building with a light saber?... but decimating a legion of jar-jar binks with a couple jedis is a thing to behold."
boy the mpaa would love to get their hands on you... adding contributing to the deliqency of a minor to their list of normal offenses would definetly get their lawyers an extra christmas bonus.
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This does present some thorny problems for the portions of IBM that depended upon this group that is leaving, though I suspect it was the ironing out of those problems that took so long to form this agreement. Where will the Shark product be without a ready supply of drives? Or most of the eServers for that matter?
Ah, but then you couldn't get the pictures of the cousin's sister's kids emailed every time they get an award at school. Or the forward of the forward of the quoted forward of the latest monster joke to wander the 'net.
picture this...
... oh, you want (with emphasis) deep data retreval? ... (eyes spin and green dollar signs come up) Yes we can go back that far. (cha-ching sound)
... You too, thanks. (hangs up phone, turns to hand a slip of paper to someone off camera, revealing a cleric's collar) Sister Doris, would you issue a check to these folks from the Church's "alternate evangelism" fund please, and what is the next ISP in the yellow pages?
(location is an ISP call center, a phone rings)
ISP phone droid #729: (picks up phone) Hello, this is $ISP, how may we make your ride on the information super highway smoother?
caller: I'd like to purchase a list of your users that visit sights like mine for marketing purposes.
phone droid: let me transfer you to marketing.
(cut to plush office, with a sleazball in a suit... plaque on wall reads "salesman of the year 1999")
marketing guy: Why yes Mr. Smith, we can do that. Simply provide us a list of domain names, and we can start send you a list of all $ISP customers that visited that site in the past month
(cut to small office, large crucifix hanging on wall behind man on phone)
man: Yes, that's the end of my list of domains. Uh-huh... yeah... ok I'll be looking forward to it in my inbox, and the check is on it's way.
(cut to another view of the same man in the same office, latter that week, working at a computer, removes floppy from diskette drive and turns to hand it to a woman at a smaller desk in the corner)
man: Sister Martha, would you cross reference this list of email addresses against the church's roster, anyone that appears on both lists, please send them a tithe reminder, jot a note suggesting they meet with me after services on the back. Give the ones that don't match to brother Bruce as potential new members of the One True Way World Church, for his email campaign to save the lost souls.
(fade to black, ominous music playing.)
Think it won't happen?
Think that's air you're breathing?
While I agree 100% with your placing the blame for bad GUIs at the feet of the programmers responsible for them, you sidestep the biggest problem with Swing: it pushes the bit level rendering WAY too far down in the call stack. Importantly for any form of Unix it pushes the widget to pixel translation *across* the X client/server gap! Yes, that's right, xscope any swing app and you get to watch the app push entire panel bitmaps across the wire, every refresh. In the windows world this isn't too much of a problem, because you almost always have direct hardware access to the video memory to draw into, but with X it's DEATH to performance. :(
Happily I've heard rumours that IBM has put a LOT of effort into fixing this for the next version of Java.
This bit of silliness was in the guise of providing a "common user interface" across all platforms, so that the XYZ ap running on Linux and on AIX and on Windows all looked and feeled exactly the same way. The stupidity here of course is that it now no longer resembles any other app on the box, and instead of providing the user with a tool that blends into everything they are used to on the machine you've provided them a tool that they don't understand.
In this regard AWT got it RIGHT, abstract the native platform's windowing toolkits. That way your (the programmers') choice to use java doesn't have any impact on the end user's experience... they don't have to know that your application is written in java, they just know they are running "OurShinnyNewApp" and it looks and feals just exactly like "OurRustyOldApp".
Yes, it's called AFS, and actually it's a much better network filesystem than SMB or CIFS (or NFS for that matter).
unlike you, no.
Have you even LOOKED at d.net in the last two years or so? I'd have to guess not, or else you missed OGR, which can be used for exactly the kind of things you're asking for!
Not in the state of Utah. Out here bars are 'Private Clubs for Members'. They have to maintain a membership roster, and keep records of who visits the club. You have to provide an ID to get in, not to prove you're of age, but for record-keeping.
That's what you get when you let a church run your state.
And that would leave us with how many commercial mail servers? None. :)
Not at all... the big companies like MS and Lotus would bring in their big lawyers and prove that it was a user config error, thereby clearing themselves and (in this case) ORBZ and laying the blame where it belonged, at the admin. They would then go back to their development labs and say "prevent the user from shooting themselves in the foot please." and a fix would be quietly issued a few months latter.
VNC on a windows box only allows you to share out the one existing desktop.
Terminal Server on windows allows you to present multiple, independent, remote desktops.
On unix platforms VNC is more like TS in that you can have multiple desktops exported, but then you can do that with unix anyway - without VNC.
"The only reason there aren't any Unix, Mac, etc. clients for RDP [...]"
not sure what planet you live on, but rdesktop.org has a very nice RDP client that runs on Linux and AIX, maybe others.
basically, yes.
and he did it a helluva a lot more efficiently.
The list of contries is easy to get sure, but as you said: the reverse lookups (1) will kill your server and (2) will open you up to more DOS attacks . Just imagine a dns server that doesn't properly close connections, forcing them to time out, now imagine two or three of them configured into a delegation round robin... a few incoming requests and your machine grinds itself into dust trying to resolve the reverse IP... get enough of those and you'll tie up enough socket resources to choke the machine. Also a reverse DNS entry isn't a requirement, many networks don't provide them. Working from domain names just doesn't seem technically feasible... pulling netblocks from iana maybe more doable, but still isn't even close to 100% accurate.
This is the second time I've seen this "recomendation" come out of a legal organization, in almost exactly the same wording no less. I've got to believe therefore that they are pulling it from some other source, such as an official regulation or other document.
Does anyone have such a list though? Can anyone provide a copy of it? Is it even technically possible to generate? In real time, or even close? I mean sure, it's technically trivial to implement this blocking, just a few iptables/ipchains commands, or some entries in the firewall's firmware... but I think getting that list to begin with is nearly impossible. How do you know where the other end of the phone line that is dialed into some modem bank on the other side of the net is?
In the last instance that I saw this (an external server at work) corporate legal was threatening to pull the plug if the admins didn't provide proof they were doing this. After much head scratching and searching the net my sugested response was that they would be happy to implement this just as soon as the legal department provided them with such a list.
I'm told they never heard back from legal on that topic.
I'm not sure if it is sad or ironic that the site that was reluctant to put up merch is the one that has the best stuff. I love the "don't make me use this" shirt, and can't wait for my "capture the b34r" shirt to arive. Compared to most of the crap other comics have MT is in a league of their own. I mean I love GPF, Flem, UF and Sinfest, they're great comics, but have you looked at their merch lately? Like others I'd gladly donate a chunk of cash to MT in repayment for the year and a half of laughs I've enjoyed.
Not that I'm familiar with this AVSID thing you describe, but it sounds like premium Keenspot... except that half the stuff on keen sucks, so it's more like $45 for a dozen sites, for a year.
ROTFL. thank you ac. :)
hehe, ok... how 'bout this... a userid of 8697 should clearly predate the time when Jon darkened the stoop of /. with his entry. :)
yeah. I was too moved by the content of his rant to think about the effect of /.'ing him at almost 4 in the morning. :( Besides, it's been years since a story of mine was actually accepted. ;)
Sorry Piro. Gomen.
I am NOT Jon Katz.
Exactly! It always amazes me how many people don't take this into account! The $6K you saved on parts will be lost the first time you have a power supply failure and crash the whole machine, or have a drive go bad in the raid and have to take the whole box down, pull it apart and swap one drive rather than just walk up, pop a clip, slide out the drive, slide in a replacement and snap it back, then login as root and issue a command to put it back into the raid. Compare no down time versus at least a half hour (if you rush the job, thereby risking doing more damage). The savings just aren't worth it for any business, let's face it that's why IBM exists and makes the kind of money it does.
actually the screen savers already did it, sorta. It was when they reviewed the StarWars skin for warcraft (or ages or whatever it was...) that was passed off as a new game a while ago... the best quote of the review went along the lines of "but some parts of the star wars universe don't translate well... when was the last time you saw a jedi knight hacking away at a building with a light saber? ... but decimating a legion of jar-jar binks with a couple jedis is a thing to behold."
yeah, I did... didn't catch that myself untill I saw the sad moderation... and then forgot to comment on it....
troll?
how about "-1 no sense of humour" on the metamod system?
boy the mpaa would love to get their hands on you... adding contributing to the deliqency of a minor to their list of normal offenses would definetly get their lawyers an extra christmas bonus.